Krakatoa: Decompilation in Java (does bytecode reveal source?)

Todd A. Proebsting; Scott A. Watterson

Krakatoa: Decompilation in Java (does bytecode reveal source?)

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Abstract

This paper presents our technique for automatically decompiling Java bytecode into Java source. Our technique reconstructs source-level expressions from bytecode, and reconstructs readable, high-level control statements from primitive goto-like branches. Fewer than a dozen simple code-rewriting rules reconstruct the high-level statements.

Original language	English (US)
State	Published - 1997
Event	3rd USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies, COOTS 1997 - Portland, United States Duration: Jun 16 1997 → Jun 20 1997

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Conference	3rd USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies, COOTS 1997
Country/Territory	United States
City	Portland
Period	6/16/97 → 6/20/97

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Science Applications
Hardware and Architecture
Information Systems
Software
Computational Theory and Mathematics

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